In Korea, there is a system of compulsory volunteering. For graduating secondary school, students should volunteer in some limited places which are close to the school. The purpose of this compulsory volunteering is teaching a pleasure of giving and sharing to students. This is a good idea, but I think current system is ineffective way for teaching it. Some people say the program already settled in some schools, but I think the program has not been broken in Korea well in aspects of the system and cognition of students.

     Most of secondary school students do mandatory volunteering unwillingly, because in Korean system, they don’t have any authority to choose the time and the institutions that are given to them for volunteering. Volunteering has to be acted in unurged and spontaneous way. Still, most of Korean secondary schools limit the range of institutions to make them close to their schools for confirmation of students’ volunteering data, thus it makes students be more bored. When I was a high school student, I couldn’t go to the place where I want to volunteer, so I had to go same place several times. In addition, in that kinds of facilities, there are not many ones which really need to be helped from students. They just make students do miscellaneous works in place of them, so students can’t learn anything valuable and get any satisfactions.

     Also, in Korean schools, nobody teach the importance of volunteering and welfare. Just they put the students in forced volunteering system. Therefore most of students think volunteering is self-sacrifice and they don’t know it can be opportunity to experience various things and can be helpful for themselves.

     Some people might argue that many people won’t do the service unless it’s mandatory. I disagree with it. In my case, after becoming an undergraduate student, I could have enjoyed my volunteering for the first time by choosing myself without any pressure from the school. I think not forced, adding extra points to the volunteering students will be able to more effective way like university system.

     I’m not against volunteering of secondary school students. I suggest that Korean mandatory volunteering system and cognition of students have to be reformed to more good ways for students themselves for teaching real pleasure of volunteering.